missuo / twitter-dl

A simple Twitter media downloader and viewer

Twitter Downloader

Twitter API Info

This requires access to the Twitter API (which means creating a developer account).

At present there are two main API versions, neither of which are good:

API Version	Supports Photos	Supports Videos	Supports Gifs	Requires Account Approval
1.1	✅	✅	✅	Yes
2.0	✅	❌	❌	No

Limitations

• Doesn't support private accounts.
• Can only download up to 3200 tweets (API limitations).
• No option to download retweets.

Install

From latest git:

cargo install --git https://github.com/jacob-pro/twitter-dl

Usage

First create an auth.json file containing your { "bearer_token": "$TOKEN" }

Download Twitter account(s):

twitter-dl download --out  ./twitter --users $USERNAMES --photos --videos --gifs 

View the downloaded tweets in a basic web app:

twitter-dl serve --dir  ./twitter

For full usage try the --help command.